How does a president create jobs?

[wetbandit2003]

How does a president create jobs?

[sniffa]

1. with tender Love and care

and prayers.

[barb162]

2. check FDR for starters

[camitche]

3. well, bush would tell you that

he creates jobs by cutting taxes and regulations on corporations allowing for an increase in revenue and more jobs.

this is a lie, of course.

[sniffa]

4. or pre-emptive wars

creates a need for miLitary personneL.

[mattclearing]

5. By investing hundreds of billions of dollars into Halliburton and Iraq.n/t

[BlueEyedSon]

6. Start here.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_deal

[Democrats_win]

7. Be optimistic, rather than playing TERROR card like he did today.

[Walt Starr]

8. I ain't buying it. n/t

[dogman]

9. This one takes people out of the work force and sends them to Iraq.

Others do not create jobs as much as create an environment that is conducive to job creation. Also directing government spending into technologies and infrastructure projects can help.

[napi21]

10. Through his economic policies.

Unbridled "free trade" isn't creating anything but exporting job.

Deliberately keeping the value of the dollar low benefits foreign mfg's not US.

Demanding programs that dramitacally increase the debt doesn't help anything!

[AngryAmish]

22. Weak dollar helps domestic manufacturing

It is simply true. Sorry.

[Warpy]

24. Sucking money away from the spending class

through bait and switch tax cuts that trigger the AMT and higher state and local taxes and lavishing money on rich men is the main cause of a stinking economy.

Offshoring will continue to be a problem until both parties realize the need for targeted tariffs. Every other country has them. We don't. There is no way the dollar will fall sufficiently against third world currencies to make their workers less attractive. Eventually fuel costs will do it, but that's at least two generations away. We can't wait that long.

Supply siders in both parties have got to go. It's lunacy and only creates a tiny aristocracy while maximizing the suffering of American citizens. Free trade dogma needs fine tuning to cover corporations that ship jobs overseas but still think the US should be their main market.

[smoogatz]

11. Depends on the economy.

During the depression, FDR started numerous jobs programs, paying for them by intentionally running a budget deficit. His thinking was that the moeny people earned from the jobs programs would go directly into the economy, Roads and bridges and such would get built and repaired, and everyone would be better off. In prosperous times, the Clinton prescription makes sense: sound fiscal policy, reduced deficits and paid down government debt--getting the government out of the way of businesses and consumers who are trying to borrow and invest.

[StainlessSteelUrsus]

12. Nothing creates jobs like a free market and free minds.

The President just needs to do his job well and let everyone else work.

[Bridget Burke]

19. Well, the President won't do his job well.

Your other ideas--dumping Social Security & cancelling Corporate Taxes--won't help, either.

[newyawker99]

26. Hi StainlessSteelUrsus!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[hfojvt]

13. as Bartcop said:

the question is moot. I do not have to know how Clinton created jobs any more than I need to know how Barry Bonds hits homers. All you need to do is look at the stats. Read Begala's book "It's still the economy stupid" for a good over-view. Compare the job creation records of Republican and Democratic Presidents, and it shows that if you like jobs - vote Democratic.

[beyurslf]

14. See GWB. Do the opposite.

[BuyingThyme]

15. By directing the tax burden to those who are not burdened. by taxes.

[demokatgurrl]

16. By keeping the Federal minimum wage low so

people have to make more than one job.

[4MoreYearsOfHell]

17. By actually convincing people that

the economy works by balancing the budget...

[asjr]

18. He hands a homeless person a broom and says Get out

there and sweep that street!

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

20. A start:

By using the power of his office and the bully pulpit of same to jawbone the major corporations into a phase of capital investment in their American subsidiaries.

That would make a nice change from Chimpy's usual neglect of the issue.

[barb162]

25. jawboning doesn't embarrass big CEOS. Only new laws will work

to force the corporations to American investment. However in this political climate, that will not happen and neither will public work projects.

[denverbill]

21. By pushing policies that grow the economy.

Like increasing the minimum wage, balancing budgets, encouraging energy conservation, raising Social Security benefits.

Conversely, you could do what Bush has done. Cut taxes for people who already have more money than they can spend, causing enormous budget deficits which cause inflationary pressure and higher oil and commodity prices, which drive down demand for other goods and services and slow down the economy. And make rich people and idiots happy.

[cally]

23. By policies that help the economy grow

Promoting new technologies and new industries. If I was an adviser now, I would promote tax breaks for energy sources that are not fossil fuels. Promoting education so the workforce is more productive. Promoting trade and productivity. Promoting small businesses and entrepreneurship.

The old industries that * has helped are the least likely to increase jobs.